Where the Database Market Goes From Here — The database market of today looks significantly different to that of a decade ago, but Stephen O’Grady, foudner of RedMonk, thinks even more change is on the horizon.

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Knuckleball: A New Data Structure Server — Reminds me of Redis. Uses a language with syntax similar to that of Smalltalk to manipulate data types like booleans, characters, integers, floats and strings, and containers like vectors, sets and dictionaries.

Diagnose Query Latency with Datadog — To get to the bottom of database performance issues, you need high-resolution data from all your systems. See metrics from all your database instances, client applications, load balancers, and more with Datadog.

Open Source Tool 'Rethinks' Databases — An open source tool for writing queries and modelling data for use with RethinkDB is being positioned as an alternative to developing applications using the ReQL query language.

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